Funny how I never thought of writing a post about my grandma after all these years of being on xanga. I find it ironic because she helped put me through college and did a lot of stuff for me growing up. I think on thing that sticks out most about my Grandma is that she is great to talk with. My other family members are quite critical and opinionated and unable to back down from what they say, not open to listening to another side, or ideas that they are not too comfortable with, but she is.

I think she has been a great influence on my life and has got me with the hard times and have shared good times together too. She continues to remind me to be balanced in life and not to be too one sided, she and I both know I'm quite the extremist, but working to find that grey area. She expresses it as, "Do things in moderation." Followed by, "I made some soup, you should drink it." If you are Chinese at all, then you know about the herbal soups that are just foul tasting and supposually good for you. She'd say when I was about 10, when I was playing soccer, "It will make you fly!" So enthusiastic and full of energy as if it made it go down any easier; not that I had a choice to drink it or not.

She's quite the spiritual person, growning up in the church and going regularly through her younger aduklts years, but also chose to explore buddism which she is quite fond of now. She tells me these stories and dreams that she has had, some which are kinda out there, but she is sincere and hasnt gone sinial yet. She always tells you need to learn to be able to dettach from things; which I find to be a great piece of advice, but so hard to do. She also tells me about "chi gung" and I remember when she would practice it and explain to me the energy and flow and stuff, it was pretty badass.

Snickers and See's Candies are always found in her frigde and she loves to eat her sweets. She often tell me, "Well I buy them and then hide them in the fridge so I dont find them." I usually reply, "But they are gone now and so I dont think the hiding is working." But once in a while I find some stashed and she'll reply, "O, you found it." She says that she needs to watch how much she eats, and I agree to an extent, but I tell her, "Hey enjoy your life and do whatcha want."

My grandma has been the fill-in for my mom for advice with the girls that I date and such and as time has gone on I see that she has always supported me, and then went the relationship eneded she would tell me that , "I didnt like her" or "she wasnt a good match." I would always reply, "Why didnt you tell me?" I guess I have to experience failure and learn a few things before I can find the right one; and she was only trying to look out for me and be supportive. I guess I cant ask for much more than support, I guess that is definiately something that I really need to look for as I think I need a lot of it. hahahaha

Funny how she always tells me that she always looks funny in pictures and since I wanted a good picture of her I had to get one. I got this recently in Hawaii with her at my brother's wedding.

Thanks for everything Grandma! You're the Best!

So I haven't seen my lil sister in a while do to the traveling and such, so I told her that I would take her out on Sunday, the same day I got from Vegas and I am still recovering, but that is a different story. I told her to pick out something to do like go to a movie or something.

So I took her to see Zack and Miri make a porno. Mind you she is only 13. Now I got to see a lot of R rated movies since I was 7-9 years old as me dad would take me along and it was awesome, but this was pretty much a porn nonetheless. It had all the aspects of a porn and it was more or less as graphic as a porn.

I tired to reason with myself and logically approach it as a mistake, but full well knowing it was gonna be hilairious and that I wanted to see it was enough for me to go. After all she wanted to see it and I'm sure she didnt see anything the interwebz hasnt already shown her.

So I came to the conclusion of:

A) Worst brother of all time with respect to shielding my lil sister's brain from things

or

B) Most awesome brother for being cool and taking her to watch Zack and Miri

*I did inform her mom (she is my half sister) and I told her she could chew me out after she watched it if she wanted to. Apparently I found out that my step sister already chewed out my step brother for almost taking my lil sister to see it.

Conclusion;

I'm the coolest older brother ever! =D

Despite the fact that "Waiting" was released a few years back, I finally got around to watching it. The moral of this movie stands strong: "Don't fuck with people who serve you food." SERIOUSLY!

The restaurant used in the movie was almost exactly like the Establishments that I worked at as for as layout and personalities found. I sadly regret not watching it sooner. Everything that happened in this movie is pretty much on par with how people act and the things that they do and wish they could do. The story does a moral of not staying in the restaurant business too long as you will end up there the rest of your life, most likely.

It was great to see and have the attitudes of employees represented to a pretty much what really happens in a restaurant during a shift. You have:

a) Talking about customers (both good and bad)
b) So much discussion about tipping right and what you made
c) The bitterness of working there and how much you just want the shift to end
d) The flirting with customers
e) Game(s) played on shifts among employees
f) The partying after a shift, only to pass out and wake up and do it again
*I will not comment whether or not things actually happen to the food served

I could relate to it so well as it was a replay of that job I had years ago. It's actors really did a great job showing exactly the type of people you will encounter, both employees and customers alike. I can say that sadly I had some managers like Dan.

I guess I would recommend that everyone should watch this movie so you will have a good understanding what it is like to work in the food industry if you have never worked in it; and if you have, you will just laugh your ass off.

Cheers and happy Waiting.....